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International Solidarity Movement member, Kevin Neish sits in with Chris Cook on Gorilla Radio, broadcast from CFUV radio, University of Victoria. Neish is preparing to join Viva Palestina’s May sailing of a fleet of ships to Gaza, Palestine to challenge the Israeli blockade of the troubled Gaza Strip.

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This week: Vincent Gogolek is policy director of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, or FIPA, an non-profit organization dedicated to: “[A]dvancing freedom of information and privacy rights in Canada.”

Vincent Gogolek and the 4-1-1 on B.C. in the information age in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here to keep us current with Victoria’s ever expanding street community at the bottom of the hour.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.

Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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This week: You may remember the War in the Woods back in the 90’s, where hundreds of activists put their bodies on the line and were arrested to stop the destruction of that gem on the west side of Vancouver Island. All’s well that ends well though, and the Clayoquot, armed with its U.N. recognition is now saved for posterity; or is it?

Glen Scott is a Tofino-based writer and newly minted environmental activist working to increase awareness of the threat of mining on Catface Mountain, in the heart of the U.N.’s World Biosphere Reserve. Glen Scott in the first half.

And; Kevin Neish is a long-time activist who has borne witness to elections in South America, and served as a peace observer to protect threatened populations there. He’s also been to the West Bank to bear witness, with the International Solidarity Movement, of living conditions suffered under Israeli occupation in Palestine. He has been invited to participate in the upcoming convoy, and joins us in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with the goings on going on on Victoria’s streets at the bottom of the hour.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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Took a walk down to the 2010 Earthday celebrations in Victoria.

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This week: Marlo Raynolds is Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, and has worked with them for fifteen years. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering and serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development with the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary.

And; Ian Angus is a philosopher, social critic, and professor of humanities at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He’s also the author of the books, ‘Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment’, and ‘Emergent Publics: An Essay on Social Movements and Democracy’.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us current with Victoria’s vibrant and burgeoning street community.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.

Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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This week: Food Not Lawns member, Nick Montgomery, one among the many calling for a change of landscaping policy at the University of Victoria in the name of food security.

This year’s installment of the annual Golden Corporate Piggy Awards in Victoria.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what’s going on on Victoria’s streets.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.

Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.co

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The annual Golden Corporate Piggy Awards for 2010 were held in Victoria today. As usual, the most deserving swine were recognized for their contribution to the state of the world.

This Week: Jon Elmer is a Canadian freelance journalist and photojournalist who has lived in and reported from Palestine on numerous occasions since the beginning of the Second Intifada there. He is the author of the websites, From Occupied Palestine.org and JonElmer.ca. Jon is recently returned to Canada from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and he joins us today from Toronto.

Listen. Hear.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here in the second half to bring us newz from Victoria's street community. But first, Jon Elmer, out of Occupied Palestine for the holidays.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.

Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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This week: Today, prisons provide where hospitals once did, and the care they administer falls far short of the Just Society we had so recently striven for. The situation is serious enough, that the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has mounted a campaign to bring change to the way prisons here treat inmates, especially those fallen through the mental health cracks. Carmen Cheung is a lawyer with the BCCLA, where she works on litigation and legal reform. Before coming here, she worked on criminal and regulatory defense in private practice in New York City. Carmen Cheung in the first half.

And; Dana Frank is a history professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author, among other books, of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, which focuses on Honduras. She is writing a book on the AFL-CIO’s cold war intervention in the Honduran labor movement. Dana Frank and Hondurans’ “Great Awakening” in the second half.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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This week: Jason Hribal is an author, whose book, ‘The Cry of Nature: An Appeal for Mercy on Behalf of Persecuted Animals’ deals with the nature of human/animal relations. His latest book, ‘Fear of the Animal Planet’ due out in the Fall follows the theme. Jason Hribal in the first half. And; David Williams is president and executive director of the Friends of the Nemaiah Valley, an organization working to protect the jewel of B.C.’s interior. David is also president of R.A.V.E.N., an organization dedicated to providing financial resources to assist Aboriginal Nations’ legal battles against industry and other “developers” that would threaten their traditional way of life. David Williams and saving Fish Lake in the second half. And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us current with Victoria’z street scene. Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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This week: Yves Engler is a freelance journalist and author whose book titles include: the Mavis Gallant Award nominated, ‘The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy,’ ‘Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,’ co-authored with Anthony Fenton, and his latest, ‘Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid,’ in which he poses the question: “How did Canada become the most pro-Israel country in the world?” Yves will be in Victoria, speak to the thesis of his book this Thursday March 25th here at the University of Victoria. Yves Engler in the first half.

Dru Oja Jay is a Montreal-based activist, researcher, journalist, member of the editorial collective, The Dominion, and author of the report, ‘Offsetting Resistance: The Effects of Foundation Funding from the Great Bear Rainforest to the Athabasca River.’ Dru Oja Jay and resisting the “Offsetting” of the environmental movement in the second half.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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Once a year, CFUV, from where Gorilla Radio emanates, holds FunDrive, and attempt to raise capital for our campus/community station. You can check us out, and donate, at the station’s site, http:cfuv.uvic.ca

And tell ’em Gorilla Radio sent you.

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Vancouver-based freelance journalist, author and researcher, Anthony Fenton will be here in the second half. Anthony’s book, ‘Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,’ co-authored with Yves Engler, explores the western aid paradigm and what it has meant for the people of Haiti and beyond. Friend of the show, Anthony Fenton in the second half.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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This week: Riki Ott is an American marine biologist and fisher, who found herself nose to nose in a fight with one of the world’s largest corporations and biggest defiler of the environment, Exxon. Ott was at the center of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and lessons learned during that fight convinced her; the power of corporations must be curtailed if accountability is to be brought to their many crimes against humanity and the environment. She is now involved with the Campaign to Legalize Democracy, a part of the Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood. Riki Ott and birthing the nation’s 28th Amendment in the second half.

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This week: artist and activist, Katherine Hughes. Hughes attended most every day of Rafil Dhafir’s three and a half month trial, bearing witness to the abrogation of justice by lawyers, witnesses, and the judges of his case. She has, in the long interim since his kangaroo court trial worked diligently to educate the public about Dr. Dhafir’s case, the criminalization of Islamic charities, and the threat to American democracy inherent in the persecution of those supporting them. Hughes is currently working on a documentary film exploring the case of the good doctor done wrong. Katherine Hughes in the first half.